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Question
How can husk or fine dust particles be separated from rice before cooking?
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Solution
- The husk or fine dust particles can be separated from rice by washing the rice with water before cooking.
- The lighter impurities float while heavier rice grains sink to the bottom. (It is sedimentation).
- Then the water with the impurities is carefully poured away by decantation, leaving clean rice at the bottom.
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